Washing-machine.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO A. CASLER, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS B. GRARY i OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.723,648, dated March 24, 1903.

Application filed May 17, 1901. Serial No. 60,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALoNzo'A. OAs ER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WashingMachines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in washing-machines; and the object of my invention is the provision of a washing-machine which can be effectively used without fatiguing the operator and which will possess merit in point of simplicity, durability, inexpensiveness, and practicability.

To attain the desired object, my invention consists of a washing machine embodying novel features of construction and combination of parts, substantially as disclosed herein.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 represents a vertical central sectional view thereof; and Fig. 8 represents a detail sectional view, on an enlarged scale, of the bearing.

A designates the supporting-legs, suitably braced and secured by the tie-rods B, and upon the legs rest the table or platform 0, upon which is supported the base-plate D. Y In an opening of the base-plate and platform fits the open casting or sleeve E, which is formed with the annular flange F and also with the ball track or way G, in which liethe balls H, upon which rests the hub J, which hub is provided with an annular flange J which is secured to and supports the suds-tub K. In the tub and the hub and sleeve is arranged the lower depending shaft L and the upwardextending shaft or standard L, and upon the standard L is placed the sleeve M,whioh carries the upper rubbing-disk N. Fromthis construction it will be seen that the sleeve can be placed upon the standard with the disk and that the disk can be readily and easily removed when found desirable or necessary, and to hold the disk from movement when the tub is oscillated I provide the brace or securing-rod O, which has its lower end con nected to the disk and its upper end secured to the board P, which is supported upon the standards which rise from the base-strip, and to the board P maybe easily and conveniently attached a wringer.

To the hub upon which the tub is supported is connected the arms Q, to the outer ends of which are connected the inner ends of the returning-springs R, which springs have their outerends connected to the brackets S and fixed to the base-plate,and in operation it will be understood that the fabric or clothes to be washed are placed in the tub, with the rubbing-disk placed uponthem, and that the tub is oscillated by the handle T, which agitates the clothes and removes the dirt, and the springs act to return the tub to its initial position, and in this manner the operator has only to oscillate the tub in either direction, as the springs effect the return movement.

I claim In a washing-machine, the combination of the tub, the base and the hub, a depending shaft supported in the hub, an upwardly-extending standard supported in the tub and engaged insaid hub, a sleeve placed around said standard and the upper rubbing-disk carried by said sleeve, substantially as shown and described.

Intestimony whereof Iaflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALON ZO A. CASLER.

Witnesses:

R. F. BIEBER, DOANE CAFFEETY. 

